Lethbridge Food Bank Society
Charitable organization · Lethbridge, Alberta · BN 119105146RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,190,282) as filed with the CRA.
Lethbridge Food Bank Society is a charitable organization based in Lethbridge, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.9M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from donations. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $255K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Operated a food bank by collecting donations of money and food for distribution to the needy.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.9M | $1.2M | $991K | $73K | — | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $3.6M | $1.1M | $936K | $73K | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | — | $898K | $752K | $75K | — | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $2.6M | $907K | $759K | $62K | — | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $739K | $637K | $48K | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $255K from 19 charities:
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$79K
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- Hobgoblin Foundation$20K
- Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta$15K
- Deplaedt Charitable Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,970
- AMA Community Foundation$8,200
- Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of Lethbridge$5,306
- ATCO Electric Epic$2,960
- Vancouver Foundation$2,700
- The Christian Reformed Church of Nobleford$1,765
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,590
- My Charity Fund$940
- McKillop United Church$732
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$712
- Community of Christ Lethbridge Congregation$200
- United Way of Greater Toronto$79
- Faith Food Bank Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$370K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lethbridge Food Bank Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119105146RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.